RedState⁠96%

Sophie Cunningham Gets Clotheslined, Then Her Own Coach Makes It Even Worse ⁠94%

By Teri Christoph⁠96%

8/9/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 30.8% saturation with 98 hits. Analysis detected 655 faulty-reasoning hits from 318 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,863 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.90% of the article peer group.

Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White sure hasn't been covering herself in glory lately. 
First, she failed to defend Sophie Cunningham, one of her star players both on and off the court, after Cunningham came under fire from the Left for saying she felt called to help protect girl athletes. 
As a reminder, this was White's response to being questioned about biological men playing in women's sports at a post-game press conference last weekend – an obvious chance for the coach to throw her player a little support. 
Instead, she played dumb. 
She took the coward's way out, while her player was left taking incoming from inside and outside of the WNBA. 
White utterly failed again Saturday when she tried to explain away the brutal clotheslining of Cunningham by DiJonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky. 
Instead of taking Carrington to task for her violent behavior, the coach actually defended her, saying it was a "hard foul" and that she didn't think Carrington "intentionally" went for Cunningham's neck. 
With friends like these, right? 
And THIS wasn't intentional? 
Not that Cunningham can't defend herself, of course, but it would be nice to see the Fever coach be a little more supportive of her player and not excuse dangerous play. 
There's talk on social media that White's just trying to de-escalate things on and off the court with her weak sauce responses, but that ship sailed a long time ago. 
At some point, de-escalation starts looking a whole lot like refusing to stand up for your own players. 
Cunningham has shown she can handle the heat just fine, but she shouldn't have to wonder whether her own coach will have her back when things get ugly. 
Stephanie White has now had two very public opportunities to show some spine where Sophie Cunningham is concerned – and she's whiffed on both. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 7.5%Teri Christoph: 5.5%RedState: 6.2%Confirmation Bias7.5%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 20.8%Teri Christoph: 2.6%RedState: 3.2%Availability Heuristic20.8%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.6%RedState: 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 10.0%RedState: 8.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.6%RedState: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.9%RedState: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Teri Christoph: 1.6%RedState: 1.6%Pessimism Bias9.7%This article: 23.3%Teri Christoph: 15.6%RedState: 13.0%Negativity Bias23.3%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 2.8%RedState: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.6%RedState: 1.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 7.3%RedState: 4.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.9%RedState: 2.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.5%RedState: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.8%RedState: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 14.8%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 1.1%Recency Bias14.8%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 9.1%RedState: 6.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.5%RedState: 2.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 2.7%RedState: 2.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.3%RedState: 2.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 5.7%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 1.2%Slippery Slope5.7%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 21.1%Teri Christoph: 7.6%RedState: 9.0%Hasty Generalization21.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.4%Teri Christoph: 0.5%RedState: 0.8%Bandwagon9.4%This article: 2.8%Teri Christoph: 9.9%RedState: 7.7%Appeal to Emotion2.8%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 2.0%RedState: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.8%RedState: 0.7%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.7%RedState: 1.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 8.8%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.3%Composition/Division8.8%This article: 9.4%Teri Christoph: 2.0%RedState: 2.4%Anecdotal9.4%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 1.3%Teri Christoph: 1.0%RedState: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)1.3%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 10.1%Teri Christoph: 0.3%RedState: 0.2%Special Pleading10.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 20.8%Teri Christoph: 3.0%RedState: 2.3%Unattributed Quote20.8%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.6%RedState: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 30.8%Teri Christoph: 23.7%RedState: 19.3%Biased Writer Voice30.8%This article: 9.7%Teri Christoph: 5.1%RedState: 4.4%Indoctrination9.7%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 14.3%RedState: 14.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 4.8%RedState: 3.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

318 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker10%attributed speech286writer words
Selected voice

Stephanie White

100%flagged-word coverage
32 attributed words100% of attributed speech83% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Biased Writer Voice-34.3 ptsWriter: 34.3%Stephanie White: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-23.1 ptsWriter: 23.1%Stephanie White: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-10.8 ptsWriter: 10.8%Stephanie White: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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